Nadia Ghulam Dastguir was born in Kabul in 1985. Despite the enormous difficulties of living during the Civil War in Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban regime, she always kept her love for poetry and oral literature. Currently, she lives and studies in Europe. Her first literary work is El secret del meu turbant, co-written with Agnès Rotger, an autobiographical book with which she won the 43rd Prudenci Bertrana Award.